Chapter 24 Entering the City

Deception, the mercenaries felt that they were deceived.

The officer claimed that the enemy would definitely flee, and they only had to deal with a few enemies who resisted. They were so easy to chase and kill these confused soldiers at the beginning,

until the wave of mercenaries crashed directly into the line of Vika infantry.

The sudden storm of bullets swept through the crowd, turning those wearing musketeer uniforms and those wearing various costumes into quiet corpses. A 12mm large-caliber musket shot a person without armor and knocked him down with one shot, and a shot in the torso would kill him with one shot.

Reality is not a game, and the superman who can still jump after eating a few shotgun shells does not exist in his army for the time being.

After the first round of firing, the musketeers did not try to reload, but raised the muskets that had been equipped with bayonets and used them as short spears.

A dozen gunshots were heard sporadically in the wave of mercenaries, knocking down two or three soldiers. The other soldiers dragged their bodies back and the soldiers behind them replaced them.

Four hundred Vika musketeers gathered on the small hill in front of the artillery array. This was the number he had gathered to the maximum. There were only about three hundred musketeers on the entire front to maintain a fragile front line, and the musketeers who did not arrive were fighting on their own. They were like puddles after rain, scattered on the ground. The small number of puddles would evaporate quickly under the sun, while those with more water could last a little longer.

Chang Heng stared at the approaching crowd. He received Ji Lin's order to hold on for ten minutes.

Wait for all the mortars to be adjusted to the firing state.

The mercenaries did not lack muskets, but the muskets had basically no chance to reload at such a close distance. Neither the Vika musketeers nor the mercenaries had the idea of ​​reloading. It would be irresponsible for their lives to try to reload the slow-loading muskets after entering the charging distance.

"Soldier, I have nothing to say! But if we can't resist the enemy attack, we will all die here today!" Chang Heng shouted: "There is no supply nearby, and you will be punished by military law if you run back to the country!"

If other people said this behind the soldiers, they might still sneer, but Chang Heng is now standing at the front of the team, facing the enemy attack.

This undoubtedly greatly boosted the morale of the line-resisting infantry.

"Maintain the formation!"

Chang Heng is a centurion after all, and his fighting skills in the cold weapon era are not weak, or in other words, this kind of battle is closer to the mode he is familiar with.

"Yes!"

The Vika musketeers shouted in unison, as if to give themselves courage.

Ji Lin stood on a high place and looked at the battlefield. He had already made all the arrangements. Next, it was time to fight with hard power.

If you have to say it, the chance of winning is only 50%.

The entire right side of the camp suffered heavy losses and was directly crushed by the cavalry's surprise attack. Even if the prepared musketeers faced the tide of routs, they could not resist the mercenary cavalry with uneven quality. It wasn't all bad. At least that wave of cavalry didn't attack his front. His front, which was only one layer thin, couldn't withstand the cavalry charge.

The enemy in front was very fierce. The mercenaries were trained to be brave and their fighting experience could be fully utilized in close combat. The Vika musketeers only had the advantage of formation and could barely hold on.

But no matter how fierce the front was, it couldn't withstand being hit by a mortar with a strange trajectory. The trajectory of the mortar was not an ordinary direct-fire artillery. The elevation angle of the direct-fire artillery was bound to cause accidental injuries at such a close distance, while the indirect-fire high-trajectory weapon could cross the enemy's front-line troops at such a close distance and directly start bombarding the crowd in the rear.

And those prisoners, those prisoners were released by Ji Lin at the first time. If they were fighting on the front line and the prisoners in the back were rioting again, there would be nearly 400 prisoners... These prisoners hesitated for a while and fled into the darkness with the fleeing tide.

Rather than preparing more soldiers and worrying about the opponent's desperate fight, it is a good choice to release them to reduce the pressure on the troops, free up the troops that need to be guarded and directly transfer them to the front for defense.

Moreover, he did not want to kill so many people.

The enemy retreated.

When the artillery opened fire, the defeat of this group of mercenaries who fled in front of them was a foregone conclusion.

Their morale collapsed as fast as they came.

When the cavalry saw that there were still artillery, they never approached their positions again. They wanted to turn to attack the lone musketeers, but were repelled by the musketeers who were freed from the pressure of the infantry, showing their nature of bullying the weak and fearing the strong to the fullest.

As all the enemies evacuated the battlefield, he was able to count those who could still move on the battlefield.

584 people.

He simply counted the remaining survivors, and the most important mechanics were well protected by him, and none of them died.

Only less than a quarter of the original...

Ji Lin sighed, and he fought hard to save less than a quarter of the troops.

A 50% chance of winning is just a miserable victory.

These 500 people, plus eight cannons that have exhausted their ammunition, are all the troops he can control.

It is not without benefits. In terms of controlling the troops alone, his force has tripled from the previous 180 people, and he has the command power in his hands. No one can tell him what to do.

These 500 people can barely be regarded as qualified embryos of steel burned by fierce fire. The spirit of the army after a bloody battle is much better than that of the army just out of the training camp. With a little training, they will be a group of excellent soldiers.

"Shall we retreat..."

The remaining 500 people had little physical strength and morale.

"No, we won't retreat. We will attack directly."

Ji Lin drew a rough map with the branch in his hand, pointing directly to the main gate of Seta on the mud.

If they couldn't take Seta, they would have nowhere to go.

Go to the wilderness of this plain? The primitive wilderness is not humane, and most of them were injured to varying degrees.

If Seta couldn't be taken, no one could treat the wounded soldiers injured in the attack, and they could only lie on the ground and wait for death to arrive.

There was no good thing like antibiotics in this era, and a small wound could spread into a fatal ulcer. Plague diseases and poisonous insects didn't like to give humans time to recuperate, and those with large wounds could find a grave to lie down.

Death is waving at you.

Ji Lin gave his orders directly to Changheng and Chongshan. He knew that he might look like a radical gambler who pinned his hopes on a single throw.

In the future he might face, taking risks is the safest thing to do.

"Give up the mortar, take all the explosives, and we will set off directly."

He gave his orders firmly.

The word "surprise" is the key. No matter how hard the opponent tries, he would never have thought that the target of their night attack tonight would be attacked and then directly attacked.

With such a night attack, the city's troops must be empty.

In order to succeed, Ji Lin specially chose the door that bypassed the attack direction.

In the night, they began to march.

The siege was unusually smooth. The soldiers on the city wall thought they were the triumph of mercenaries. Some mercenaries had returned to Seta before. These people did not bring back the news that they had been defeated. They did not even know whether they had been defeated or not. They just ran back to the city first after taking enough spoils.

These garrisons on the city wall did not even close the door...

Those mercenaries who were somewhat disciplined retreated to the cannon and waited for orders, or walked out of the door directly back to the city to prepare for their rewards. Seeing that the Vika advance team was doomed, the officer naturally planned to call off the troops.

The duration of the illumination spell had also ended.

The land returned to silence.

The guards were not wary of them and were knocked down by the musketeers.

As soon as he entered the city, no one dared to run out to stop him. He led the musketeers and rushed directly to the city lord's mansion, knocked down the guards who dared to shoot at them, and then kicked open the door of the city lord's mansion with his subordinates, dragging down the city lord who was playing with several maids on the bed.

Let him feel the feeling of a gun on his head.

The city lord looked at Ji Lin, who was smiling in a gray military uniform, with a bitter face.

To capture a thief, capture the king first.

General.

The residents of Seta only heard the continuous sound of artillery outside the city.

When they woke up, the city had changed its owner.